55 examples of terrapin in sentences

His terrapin is still spoken of in Lichfield as people in less favored localities speak of the Golden Age, and his mayonnaise (boasts Lichfield) would have compelled an Olympian to plead for a second helping.

Sure we're expecting to stand up for Obed and his pets; and we're likewise intending to make it hot for any old terrapin who comes creeping around here with the idea of making way with the wearers of that expensive fur.

The window above, too,it was Kristian Koppig who noticed that,opened a wee bit, like the shell of a terrapin; Presently the manager lifted his foot and put forward an arm, as though he would enter the gate by pushing, but as quick as gunpowder it clappedin his face!

"They are terrapin-buzzards!"

I had endured "terrapin-buzzards," hurled at the group by my woman child, perceiving need of relief for her pent-up passion.

Terrapin-buzzards was bad enough, though it was true that this might be used innocently, as in a moment of mild dismay, or as an exclamation of mere astonishment without sinister import.

The news that we were about to meet the Spanish forces face to face spread rapidly among the men in the ranks, and aroused more enthusiasm than terrapin and champagne could have done.

Half an hour afterwards they came to the home of a farmer, who was trying to make a living out of his isolated holdings, eking it out, as he informed them while his wife was getting up the best meal possible, by doing some terrapin hunting, and even trapping muskrats and such fur-bearing animals during the otherwise unprofitable winter months.

Yet he can tell a good, big story yet, and when somebody was talking of turtles of good size, jumped up suddenly, "Did you ever see a terrapin, Sir?" and then walked round the long dining-table to tell how big he was and how high he stood on his feet.

His winter view, "Terrapin Tower, 37," is perfection itself.

Why don't you get that lady off from Battle Monument and plant a terrapin in her place?

When I arrived at the terrapin bridge, I expected to be overwhelmed, to retire trembling from this giddy eminence, and gaze with unlimited wonder and awe upon the immense mass rolling on and on, but, somehow or other, I thought only of comparing the effect on my mind with what I had read and heard.

I felt a foreboding of a mightier emotion to rise up and swallow all others, and I passed on to the terrapin bridge.

At one time there fell on the table a heavy body, which proved to be a living terrapin; at another time there appeared a pigeon which flew about the room.

It is a red-bellied terrapin.

Screaming on account of terrapin.

There is no such thing as solid substance, matter is permeable to these forces, and, therefore, it is easy to see how a terrapin can come quick as lightning through a wall."

He began to be inflated over having discovered this Mr. Tutt, who pressed succulent oysters and terrapin stew upon him, accompanied by a foaming bottle of Krug '98.

And after the terrapin Miranda brought in a smoking wild turkey with two quail roasted inside of it, and served with currant jelly, rice cakes, and sweet potatoes fried in melted sugar.

At "Terrapin Neck" the river flows twenty-one miles, and gains only three hundred yards.

* Terrapin Boil the terrapin for one hour, and clean carefully.

* Terrapin Boil the terrapin for one hour, and clean carefully.

Place the terrapin into a stewpan with a glass of sherry or madeira and the prepared paste.

That very night Fussie supped off, not rats, but terrapin and other delicacies in Henry's private sitting-room.

An old and crafty terrapin, Who lately found his speech, Like many another simple lout, Concluded he could preach.

55 examples of  terrapin  in sentences